LOCAL School district OKs union pacts The Berrien...

February 27, 2008

LOCALSchool district OKs union pacts The Berrien Springs school board has approved new union contracts with two employee groups and has only negotiations with the district's teachers to resolve before the end of the school year. The board last week approved new one-year contracts with the district's 15 bus drivers and 55 support personnel. The board earlier approved a contract with food service workers in October. B1Motorist facing jail time in death A Dowagiac woman will likely spend at least a year in jail after pleading no contest this week to hitting and killing a bicyclist with her car while her license was suspended on Sept. 20, 2006, in Niles. Stevi Lorraine Smith, 38, will be sentenced in Berrien County Trial Court March 31. B1Superintendent resigns, rehired When the resignation of its superintendent came up for a vote Monday, the Cassopolis Public Schools board of education accepted it "without regret." But in almost the next breath the board voted to rehire Gregory Weatherspoon through a third-party school services provider, ContractED. B1